Senior Director, Client Platform & Infrastructure

Leadout Capital; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Slack is seeking an engineering leader to own the shared technical foundations across web, desktop, and mobile. As Senior Director of Engineering for the Application Architecture and Systems pillar, you will lead a 50+ person organization, hire and mentor managers, set a multi-year technical strategy, and partner with Product and Design to drive an ambitious roadmap.

The role emphasizes engineering excellence, reliability, and high-velocity delivery in an agentic development era, including

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading product infrastructure engineering at a company with a complex, large-scale client application.
• Experience in client infrastructure; web and mobile depth is valued.
• Track record leading large engineering organizations, including managing managers and coaching senior leaders.
• Ability to set technical strategy and translate it into a roadmap with Product/Design.
• Hold teams to high standards for performance, reliability and quality.
• Collaborate across functions without direct authority over all parties.
• Related technical degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering organization—own the Application Architecture and Systems engineering organization across web, desktop, and mobile.
• Define and drive the multi-year technical vision and roadmap for Slack's client infrastructure.
• Raise the bar on performance, reliability, quality, and craft in the team's work and culture.
• Reshape how client engineering teams build and ship so they move faster without sacrificing quality (including AI agents).
• Own shared platforms—frameworks, components, design-system foundations, internal client APIs.
• Champion accessibility and ensure it is a first-class concern.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and executive peers to align priorities and dependencies.
• Build a connected, global team and drive a high-performing culture.

Skills

Product infrastructure

Leadership at scale

Cross-functional collab

AI-assisted development

Platform architecture

Accessibility

Tools

Electron

Job description

Slack is seeking an engineering leader to own the shared technical foundations across web, desktop, and mobile. As Senior Director of Engineering for the Application Architecture and Systems pillar, you will lead a 50+ person organization, hire and mentor managers, set a multi-year technical strategy, and partner with Product and Design to drive an ambitious roadmap.

The role emphasizes engineering excellence, reliability, and high-velocity delivery in an agentic development era, including